In which continue our discussion of Home Education, Part 5, Chapter 21 - Pictorial Art

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education, Part 5, Chapter 19 - Grammar, and Chapter 20 - French

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education, Part 5, Chapter 18 - History

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education, Part 5, Chapters 16 - Natural Philosophy, and 17 - Geography

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education, Part 5, Chapter 15 - Arithmetic

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education, Part 5, Chapter 14 - Bible

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education, Part 5, Chapter 11 - Transcription, Chapter 12 - Spelling and Dictation, and Chapter 13 - Composition

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education, Part 5, Chapter 9 - The Art of Narration, and Chapter 10 - Writing

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education Part 5 Chapter 8 - Reading for Older Children

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education Part 5 Chapter 7 - Recitation

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education Part 5 Chapters 4-6 - Reading, The First Reading Lesson, and Reading By Sight And Sound

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education Part 5 Chapter 3: Further Considerations of the Kindergarten

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In which continue our discussion of Home Education Part 5. Chapter 2: The Kindergarten as a Place of Education.

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Article about books and imagining from Letters from Nebby

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Children necessary to Christmas Joy - Every Babe bears an Evangel - A Child is Humble - Humility not Relative, but Absolute - Children do not make Self-depreciatory Remarks - Humility Unconscious of Self - The Christian Religion Objective - Children are Objective in Tendency - Every Function may have its Subjective or Objective Development - Fortitude - The Self-regarding Child no longer Humble - No Spartan Regimen - The Altruistic or Egoistic Direction - 'It's not Fair!' - Humility the Highest Counsel of Perfection

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Brandy Vencel's talk on Aquinas’ Big Picture Of Education: Charlotte Mason’s Great Recognition

Ruskin on the 'Vaulted Book.' - The Seven Natural Sciences - Education not Religious and Secular - The Great Recognition - Knowledge, like Virtue, Divine - Science, Art and Poetry 'by the Spirit.' - Ideas of Common Things - 'God doth Instruct.' - Subjects Divinely Taught - Our Co-operation Indispensable - Teaching that Invites and that Repels Divine Co-operation - Discord in our Lives Resolved - We are Safeguarded from Intellectual as from Moral Sin - Harmony in our Efforts - Conditions of Divine Co-operation - Teaching must be Fresh and Living - Books must be Living - No Neat System is of Use - Children must have the Best Books

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Physical and Psychical Evolutions - The Greatness of Children - Wisdom, the Recognition of Relations - Wisdom increases; Intelligence does not - Differences in Men - Ignorance is not Impotence - All Possibilities Present in a Child - We Live for the Advancement of the Race - Our Whence in the Potency of the Child, our Whither in the Thought of the Day - All Men are Interested in Science - Children Trained to Observe - A new Conception of Art; great Ideas demand great Art - Children should Learn to Care for Books - Children must be Nurtured on the Best - The Solidarity of the Race - Children should be Brought up to Live for All Men - Children should not hear of 'Impostors' - To Serve is Promotion - No Considerations of Expediency

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Progress of the Parents' National Educational Union - Its Importance - The Legacy of the Past - Children Responsible Persons - Now, we are not Sure - Intellectual Labour of the Child's First Year - Intelligence of Children - Children highly Endowed but Ignorant - Happy and Good, or Good and Happy - Our Conception of the Child is Old, of Education New - Divine Co-operation - Two Educational Labours - Test for Systems - Advance with the Tide

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Character an Achievement - Origin of Conduct - Means of Modifying Disposition - Genesis of a Habit - Correction of Bad Habit - But not for Children of Educated Parents - Conduct depends on Unconscious Cerebration - Benevolence - Malevolence - Habits of 'Well-brought-up' Persons - Time should be given to the Forming of Habit - Thoughts Follow in Sequence - Into new Developments - The Initial Thought - Makes for Logical Conclusions - 'Reason' Acts without Volition - Not an Infallible Guide to Conduct - Confusion as to Logical and Moral Right - Error from Mistaken Sense of Duty - A Child should know what he is as a Human Being - This Knowledge a Safeguard - Against 'Honest Doubt.' - Life Sustained upon Ideas - Volition in the Reception of Ideas - How Ideas are Conveyed - The Supreme Educator - In things Natural and Spiritual - This View throws Light on Christian Doctrine - Divine Co-operation in Education - Part of Lessons in Education - A Curriculum -

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Each Class in Society should have its Ideal - Poor Children need a Vocabulary - Children of Educated Parents do not - This, true of Imagination - The Development of Faculties Important for Ignorant and Deficient Children - But not for Children of Educated Parents - The Educator should form Habits - Should Nourish with Ideas - Our Main Objects - We recognise Material and Spiritual Principles of Human Nature - We recognise the Supreme Educator - Studies are Valued as they present Fruitful Ideas - Nature-Knowledge - Object-Lessons - We trust much to Good Books - We do not recognise 'Child-Nature.' - We are Tenacious of Individuality: we consider Proportion - We think that Children have a Right to Knowledge

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We have been asking, Why?––Tom goes to School to get a good place in Class––Tom passes his 'Exams.'––So do the Girls––The Tendency of Grind––No Choice as to the Matter or Manner of Studies––Tyranny of Competitive Examination Supported by Parents––The Evil Lies in the Competition––Examination Necessary––but should Include the whole School––The Primary Desires––Neither Virtuous nor Vicious––They Stimulate to Effort––Curiosity as Active as Emulation––Extent of a Child's Knowledge––Why the Schoolboy is no longer Curious––Every Boy Wants to Excel––Emulation an Easier Spring to Work than Curiosity––But the Boy no longer Wants to Know––An Examination-ridden Empire

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We are as a Nation Losing and Gaining in Truthfulness - The Child a Human Being, perhaps at his Best - In the Matter of Lying: Two Theories - A Child is Born without Virtue or Vice - Lying is not Elemental, but Secondary and Symptomatic - 1. Pseudophobia––Treatment - 2. The Lie Heroic - 3. Truth for Friends, Lies for Enemies - 4. Lies inspired by Selfishness - 5. Deceptions of Imagination and Play––Due to an Unfed Imagination––Lessons in Truth Telling - 6. Pseudomania - Signs of Pseudomania - Children must be Trained to Truthfulness

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Reflected sensations - Open-air Memories should be Stored - Memories of Delight a Source of Physical Well-Being and of Mental Restoration - Sensations and Feelings Distinguished - The Feelings should be Objective, not Subjective - What the Feelings are and are not - Every Feeling has its Positive and its Negative - The Feelings not Moral or Immoral - Connection between Unremembered Feelings adn Acts - These Trifling Acts the Best Portion of a Good Man's Life - The Perception of Character one of our Fine3st Feelings - The Orator Plays upon Feelings - Enthusiasm - In Educating the Feelings we Modify the Character - The Sixth Sense of Tact - Beware of Words - A Feeling is Communicated by Sympathy - Persons are Differentiated by their Powers of Appreciation or Depreciation - Some Danger in Persiflage - To Deal with the Feelings of the Young a Delicate Task

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Common Sense - Origin of Sensations - Sensations should be treated as of Objective Interest - Object-Lessons in Disfavour - A Baby's Object-Lesson - Nature's Teaching - Education of the Senses - Advantages of Home Teaching - Positive and Comparative Terms - Indiscriminate Use of Epithets - Judgment as to Weight - Judgment as to Size - Discrimination of Sounds - Discrimination of Odours - Discrimination of Flavour - Sensory Gymnastics - Sensory Games

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Discipline is not Punishment - A Method is not a System - A Wise Passiveness - Punishment by Consequences - Children rather Enjoy Punishments - Heroism in Bearing Penalties - Wrongdoing followed by its own Penalties - Punishment is not Reformative - Good Habits the best Schoolmasters - Always Telling - Some Practical Counsels - An Inquisitive Child - The Defect of her Quality

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A Moral Crisis - We, too, Love our Brother - The 'Idol of Size' - Cui Bono? - Can Character be Changed? - The Question of the Age - The Essential Miracle - The Honest Sceptic - The Vicious by Inheritance - The Vicious by Inveterate Habit - Thoughts Think Themselves - Viscious Imaginations - Acquired Modification not Transmitted - Education Stronger than Nature - Natural Preparation for Salvation - Conversion no Miracle - Many Conversions in a Lifetime - 'Conversion' is not Contrary to Natural Law - Conditions of the Potency of an Idea - Fitness of the Ideas included in Christianity - Curative Treatment Necessary - The Relief of Inclusion in a Strong Organisation - Work and Fresh Air are Powerful Agents

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Heroic Poetry Inspires to Noble Living - Beowulf, our English Ulysses - Beowulf is Prudent and Patient - 'Have Patience of thy Woes' - 'I Swore no False Oaths.' - 'Bear thyself Well.' - The English Ideal - Children should be in Touch with Beowulf - Action of the Poem - Our Gentle Forefathers--Old English Riddles

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Things 'Sacred' and Things 'Secular' an Irreligious Classification - All Intercourse of Thought Belongs to the Realm of ideas - It is Obvious and Natural that the Father of Spirits should keep Open Access to the Spirits of Men - Easy Tolerance Commends itself to many Minds - Thackeray on the Easy and Sceptical Attitude - Man lives by Faith, Godward and Manward - Faith is the Simple Trust of Persons in a Person - Faith, a Lore of the Soul which demands Study - The Naturalness of Faith - Faith is no Self-originated Impulse - The Compassion of Christ - The Worship of Faith - Righteousness is a certain Disposition of the Spirit of Man to the Spirit of God

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English Educational Thoughts tends towards Naturalism - Madame de Staël upon Locke - Our Educational Efforts lack Definite Aim - We are on the Verge of Chaos - But also in the Throes of an Educational Revolution - Is our System of Education to be the Issue of Naturalism or Idealism? - The Ethical View in Education - No Attempt has been made to Unify Education - Claims of Philosophy as an Educational Agent - A Nation should be Educated for its Proper Functions - M. Fouillée Neglects the Physiological Basis of Education - The Minor Moralities become Matters of Habit - The Idea which Initiates a Habit - Can Spirit act upon Matter - There is no Middle Way Open - The Individuality of Children is Safeguarded - Importance of Salient Ideas - A Scientific Spirit

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'Laws of nature and ways of men' - The moral instruction of children - No infallible sense of 'ought' - The Bible a classic literature - The Bible tabooed in 'education' - A mother's diary - Fairy tales, and how to use them - Fables - Bible stories - The cadence of Bible phraseology is charming to a child - Shall the stories of miracles be used in moral instruction? - Should the whole Bible be put into the hands of a child? - Moral rules from the Pentateuch - The 'Odyssey' and the 'Iliad' - The initial weakness of 'secular' morality - Lessons on duty - A child's inducements to learn - Moral value of manual training - Slipshod moral teaching - Importance of ethical instructions

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Sunday Schools are necessary - But educated parents should instruct their children in religion - An Australian outcome of the Parents' Union - Parents are the fit instructors - Report of a Committee on the religious education of the upper and middle classes - Why do not parents instruct their children in religion? - Discredit thrown upon the Bible - 'Miracles do not happen' - Our conception of God depends upon 'miracles' - 'Natural law' and miracle - How fit are the miracles of Christ!

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Pushing yourself to your highest potential - getting into med school - Weight Loss for Busy Physicians

[Waverley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverley_(novel) by Sir Walter Scott
Chapter 3 - Education

Lord Byron's "Grandmother's Review, the British"
“Of Waverley himself we shall say but little, as his character is far too common to need a comment; we can only say that his wanderings are not gratuitous, nor is he wavering and indecisive only because the author chooses to make him so. Every feature in his character is formed by education, and it is to this first source that we are constantly referred for a just and sufficient cause of all the wandering passions as they arise in his mind."

Jean Jacques Rousseau on natural education

2 Peter 1:5-7 - For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Luke 3:4-6 - As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.
Every valley shall be filled,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
and the crooked shall become straight,
and the rough places shall become level ways,
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”

Isaiah 40:3-5
A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Walking Lessons

'The schoolmaster will make him sit up!' - Why this, left to the schoolmaster - His successes, with children who have been trained at home - The habits of school-life are mechanical - Mental 'sprawling' exemplified in 'Edward Waverley' - Parents are apt to leave training to the schoolmaster - We are not meant to grow up in a state of Nature - The first function of the parent is that of discipline - Education is a discipline - Discipline is not punishment - How disciples are lured - Steady progress on a careful plan

The chief thing we have to do - Two ideas of God fitting for children - 'We outh to work slowly up through the human side'; why not? - Logical certainty and moral right - The conscientious Jew and the Crucifixion - The patriotic Jew and the Crucifixion - Primal ideas derived from parents - First approaches to God - Communing out loud before the children - A child's gratitude - Archaic forms in children's prayers - 'The shout of a King' - 'The fight of Christ against the devil' - 'Oh dear! it's very hard to do God's work!'

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Do children take their parents' beliefs? - The Atlantic

Millennials affected majorly by the Great Recession of 2008 - CNN

Incident between teen in MAGA hat and Native American with drum - news.com

Flat Earth Debate on KLBJ in Austin

Teaching children how vs. letting them explore - MIT.edu

Watch your thoughts. They become words. Watch your words. They become deeds. Watch your deeds. They become habits. Watch your habits. They become character. Character is everything. (Source)

GK Chesterton on Fairy Tales (wikiquotes)

Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

Memories of Heaven by very young children (HuffPost)

Psalm 32:7 - Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.

Childhood experiences affecting adulthood - Learning-mind.com

Parents, revealers of God to their children - They have to fortify them against doubt - Three ways - The first, unfair - 'Evidences' are not proofs - The outlook upon current thought - 'Freewill' in thought - Preparation - Reservation as regards science - Knowledge is progressive - Children should learn some laws of thought - To look at thoughts as they come - The appeal of the children - 'My hiding-place' - The mind of the child is good ground - Children suffer from a deep-seated discontent

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Per usual, but we're blaming the holiday maddness that is currently sweeping through our family, show notes will be released in the near(ish) future.

Dating a few people:

1842-1923 - Charlotte Mason
1746-1827 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
1782-1852 - Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel
1803-1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
1822-1888 - Matthew Arnold

Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College

Speakers protested at college campuses

• against right-wing speakers
• In general

Common Core FAQ

Wrinkle in Time – on "It" planet - neighborhood sameness. This is an extremely poor video, but the only one I could find.

Good Will Hunting - bar scene with grad student. Quoted part begins around 1:20 Warning There is a curse word.

For fun... Here's Peyton Manning's bad QB slide

Summary of preceding chapter – Educational conceptions of the past – Pestalozzi's theory – Froebel's theory – The kindergarten a vital conception – But science is changing front – Is education formative? - The individual not at the mercy of empiries – 'Education' an inadequate word - 'Bringing-up' - An adequate definition – Method a way to an end – The life of the mind grows upon ideas – What is an idea? – Rise and progress of an idea – Genesis of an idea – An idea may exist as an appetency – A child draws inspiration from the casual life around him – Order and progress of definite ideas – Platonic doctrine of ideas – Ideas, alone, matter in education – How the educational formula should run – The ‘infallible reason’ – What is it?

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• French clergyman

Charlotte Mason's works in Modern English - Parents & Children ch 3

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - Declaration of Independence

Timeline of scientific discoveries in the 1800's (wiki)

Pandora's Box (wiki)

Dr. Henry Maudsley (wiki)

Intersectionality & identity politics

Nature / Nurture (Simply Psychology)

Los Alamos (wiki)

Academic early learning -

• Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm (Psychology Today)
• Why pushing kids to learn too much too soon is counterproductive (Washington Post)
• cutting shop class and home economics (Forbes)

Teenage sleep schedules (Nationwide Children's)

A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

Parents owe a second birth to their children -- Science supports this contention -- Processes and methods of this second birth -- Dr. Maudsley on heredity -- Disposition and character -- Dr. Maudsley on the structural effects of 'particular life experiences' -- Our age has acquired a great educational charter -- Some articles of this charter

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King Lear summary

King Lear long quote – Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 268 – 283
It may be so, my lord.
Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear!
Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend
To make this creature fruitful!
Into her womb convey sterility!
Dry up in her the organs of increase;
And from her derogate body never spring
A babe to honour her! If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen; that it may live,
And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!
Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth;
With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;
Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
To laughter and contempt; that she may feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! Away, away!

(Modern English)
Ah, dear Nature, my goddess, listen to me!
Change your plans if you ever intended for this woman to have children.
Make her sterile and dry up her womb so that no baby will ever come out of her body and honor her.
If she must give birth, make her child a bad seed who will torment her, give her a forehead wrinkled with worry,
make her cry until her cheeks are sunken. Let it be a wicked child who mocks the mother who cares for it.
Make my daughter feel—make her feel how an ungrateful child hurts worse than a snakebite.—
Now let’s leave. Go!

The Tempest summary

Journey-and-Destination blog - Carol's take on chapter 2, which pointed me to French Maternal Schools

French Maternal Schools -
-see page 17 of this PDF for a chart for attendance and ages
-see page 14 for a brief history of maternal schools
-see page 21 for a brief description of current maternity leave arrangements

US Maternity Leave -
The United States is one of 2 other countries that are members of the 185-member OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) that do not offer any form of pay during maternity leave.
Pew Research article

FMLA (wiki)
Benefits:
-12 weeks unpaid leave
-Get basically your same job back
Requirements:
-Have worked at that company at least 25 hrs/week for 12 months
-Company has 50+ employees

Child soldiers in the Middle East - quote "For us [Islamic State], we believe that this generation of children is the generation of the Caliphate…the right doctrine has been implanted into these children. All of them love to fight for the sake of building the Islamic State.”

Blood Diamond (wiki)

Lycurgus of Sparta (wiki)

Parental over-involvement at the college level

Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same

The family government an absolute monarchy -- The rule of parents cannot be deputed -- Causes which lead to the abdication of parents -- The majesty of parenthood -- Children a public trust and a divine trust -- The limitations and scope of parental authority

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Rousseau succeeded in arousing parents -- The family a commune -- The family must be social -- The family must serve poorer neighbours -- The family must serve the nation -- The Divine order for the family as regards other nations - The family should (a) learn languages; (b) show courtesy abroad -- The restoration of the family

Jean Jacque Rousseau (wiki)

Rick Moranis

Separation issues, abandonment issues

Communism (wiki)

Venezuela trying communism

Irresistable Revolution by Shane Claiborne
The Simple Way

Family relationships diagram

Daniel Everett on language

The family in the United States

Chapter 1: The Family

Rousseau succeeded in arousing parents -- The family a commune -- The family must be social -- The family must serve poorer neighbours -- The family must serve the nation -- The Divine order for the family as regards other nations - The family should (a) learn languages; (b) show courtesy abroad -- The restoration of the family

The Preface can be found here.
Chapter 1 can be found here or here.

We will not be discussing the Preface at this time. Later, when we somewhat know what we're doing, it will happen.

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